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Friday, August 04, 2017

Our Cities Vanish, Poetry by Ray Ninman

Ray Hinman's poems are vibrant with the tension between light and darkness, life and death, and they are a cycle of rebirth in which corpses can blossom again. It is a world built through conversations with the dead, with the voices of the literary past, allusions to the things that have come before and constructed with a clear, conscious sense that poetry is a Craft. These poems understand the value of things like aesthetics, culture and meaning. Ray Hinman understands the poet as the modern descendant of the Shaman, treading the boundary between what is forbidden and what is allowed to guide us beyond the things that distract us and drown the spirit to the transcendent and the sublime

Ray Hinman returns the strength of history and culture to language. Unashamed of thought, uninhibited by the current fashion of poetic anti-intellectualism, Hinman speaks from a foundation of tradition, yet fashions his structures with the touch and sites of nature. Definitely modern, he unites civilization across time, refuses to surrender to the triviality of high technology, though hints that our era stands out in this defiance of human greatness.His rhythms flow with the love of language's music, and like the Whitman whose ghost tours his city, he finds in the urban tableau the clues to what we search for in clustering into cities.

Our Cities Vanish

Our cities will vanishthe way they were built,in flurries of greed and seduction.Dallas for instance,was founded by AppalachianPariahs,lean men with gaunt facesand a burning in their eyes.Now another Dallas has sprung upwhere they built,a Mecca for the mercenarieswrapped in steel glitter,wrapped in gold glitter, burning as brightlyas their lust.Practicality is their monumentto their fathers.Practicality,the faith of Pariahs:the gleam of a bauble pawed by cats.When pressedthey will admit truth is beautiful.Naturefor instance,is even more beautifulwhen it's mysteries are revealed, and sothey still admire the moon,praise it,for remaining such a worthy objectivefor their calculationsof trajectory,they admire Einstein, who "thought up some good physics,"that will allow them to build other Dallaseson distant planets.eternity is PROfound.And yet,the only eternity they believe inis the eternal distance between classes,between races,between failure and success.Our cities will vanishthe way they were built,and return even more mysteriously.

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